The Good

Making an impression. With SS Everth Cabrera back in the fold next year and the Padres capable of covering his days off with Logan Forsythe and Alexi Amarista, it’s not easy to see how Ronny Cedeno might find a place on the roster next spring. Not that he’s not making an impression. In 22 games with the Padres, Cedeno is hitting .240 after going 1-for-4 Wednesday, including a 426-foot homer into the third deck in left field. It was his second homer since joining the Padres as a free agent in August.

Headley healthy. Evidently, 3B Chase Headley was feeling good again Wednesday. He homered on an 0-2 pitch from RHP Tim Lincecum in the fifth inning, blasting the pitch 390 feet into the stands in right for his ninth homer of the season and his first since July 27. Headley had missed the previous six games with a sore lower back.

The Bad

Gopher balls. Padres LHP Eric Stults simply couldn’t keep the ball in the yard Wednesday. He served up a homer in the third inning to Brandon Crawford and two more in the fourth – a pair of two-run shots to Hunter Pence and Hector Sanchez – on the way to allowing seven runs on nine hits and no walks in 4 2/3 innings. Before Wednesday, Stults had given up 12 homers all season. All told, the Giants hit six homers, including three from Pablo Sandoval after Stults left the game.

Too little, too late. Tim Lincecum was far from unhittable Wednesday. He gave up a leadoff single to Will Venable and allowed four of the first five batters of the game to reach base. But the Padres got only one run in the first – on a passed ball – before Lincecum struck out Nick Hundley and Reymond Fuentes to end the rally, and they never really put much pressure on him outside of Cedeno’s and Headley’s homers until the sixth inning. By then the Padres were rallying against an 8-3 lead when they chased Lincecum with five runs allowed in 5 2/3 innings.